Foundation prexy to address UM Men

The president of the United Methodist Men’s Foundation is to address the United Methodist Men’s luncheon June 9 in Corpus Christi.
Robert Powell of Dothan, Ala., has headed the foundation since 2000 and has raised more than $1 million for the agency. The foundation supports ministries of United Methodist Men.
The meal, scheduled during the Southwest Texas Annual Conference session, is to begin at 12:15 p.m. outside the Grand Ballroom on the second floor of the American Bank Center. Tickets will be on sale before the event.
Powell joined The Methodist Church in 1942 at age 9. He has been active ever since. He’s been a Sunday school teacher, pastor-parish relations committee chair, certified lay speaker, lay member of annual conference and delegate to both the Southeastern Jurisdictional Conference and the General Conference.
He now serves on the superintendency committee of the Dothan District in the Alabama-West Florida Conference.
Within United Methodist Men, Powell has been a district, annual conference, jurisdictional and national president.
As national president, he lobbied the 1996 General Conference to create the General Commission on United Methodist Men.
Before that, men’s ministry had been a division of the General Board of Discipleship.
When the new agency opened in 1997, Powell served on the first executive committee with Bishop Ray Owen, former leader of the Southwest Texas Conference.
Owen was first president of the commission.